Patent 7701599 was granted and assigned to RICOH COMPANY,LTD. on April, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A printing system includes a document supervisory client provided in a first computer and configured to generating at least one print condition setting. A document supervisory server provided in a second computer and configured to perform printing based on the print condition settings. The document supervisory client queries the document supervisory server via a network if the print condition settings are appropriate in a printer controlled by the document supervisory server through the network. The document supervisory server returns advisability of the print condition settings to the document supervisory client based on a condition of the printer.